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Excerpt from The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, 1859, Vol. 7
Mhington. In the absence of foreign intervention, the Federal Government can only escape the suspicion of com plicity either by vowing its helplessness or by putting down the enterprise; and it is evident that tho piratical adven turers tliamselyos would be lad of any proceeding on the part of England which we d make their cause popular among their own countrymen. As hypocrisy is the tribute of rice to virtue, so the complaint of Englinh intorfewncc may be considered as the homage of Filibuatering cupidity to tho respectable feeling of American (mtriotilsln. J caloney of European intervention is not in itself unreasonable, although it may be untenable when it provokes inquiry and contradiction in the tangible form of an arbitrary Momma doctrine. The ms and lands of the world are free, in the same sense in which a. Welsh mountain affords equal rights of common to the fiirmcm of twenty parhhea ln notice the owners of large flocks occupy exclusive ranges 0 sheep wallt; and their poorer or more diulunt neighbours find by experience that it is more convenient to imitate their prac tice than to dispute their claim. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.